Asylum (1972)
An Amicus horror anthology written by Robert "Not Richard Matheson" Bloch. The framing story has a new doctor arriving at an insane asylum where the former director had a breakdown and is now one of the patients. His audition to get the job is to interview the inmates and guess which one was the director.
Bloch has a wealth of short stories to draw from, but sadly three of these stories were of the "thing that shouldn't be alive is alive" school, namely severed body parts, an entire body, and a meat-filled tiny robot.
Much like Trilogy of Terror, I found the meat robots both chilling and silly, much like Hugo, Man of a Thousand Faces.
The big reveal at the epilogue was both silly and chilling as well, featuring my favorite cinematic maniacal cackling.
Stories in the film were also televised in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, and Monsters.
On Amazon Video.
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